Daga Family Wedding Celebrated by the Las Vegas Club (Mariage Daga arrosé par Las Vegas)
<p>Malick Sidibé opened his photography studio in Bamako, Mali, in 1962, just two years after the country’s liberation from France, and began his career photographing the growing construction industry, making studio portraits, and documenting events at the newly established social clubs. Sidibé’s work from this period captures Bamako’s cosmopolitan youth at a euphoric moment, when the embrace of foreign music, dress, and newfound consumer habits allowed them, in his words, “to experience a different kind of freedom.” As seen in this composite sheet for a wedding celebration, social clubs such as the Las Vegas Club (which was active from 1963 to 1969) offered the youth of Bamako a place to engage in romantic and social interactions, dance to Western music, and be seen in the latest street fashions.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1966
- Dimensions
- Each image: 8 × 5.8 × 8 cm (3 3/16 × 2 5/16 × 3 3/16 in.); Overall: 32.5 × 49.5 cm (12 13/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Malick Sidibé
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Photography
Malick Sidibé was a Malian photographer from a Fulani (Fula) village in Soloba, who was noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako, Mali. Sidibé had a long and fruitful career as a photographer in Bamako, and was a well-known figure in his community. In 1994 he had his first exhibition outside of Mali and received much critical praise for his carefully composed portraits. Sidibé's work has since become well known and renowned on a global scale. His work was the subject of a number of publications and exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. In 2007, he received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale, becoming both the first photographer and the first African so recognized. Other awards he has received include a Hasselblad Award for photography in 2003, an International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008), and a World Press Photo award (2010).
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- Malick Sidibé
- Year
- 1966
- Dimensions
- Each image: 8 × 5.8 × 8 cm (3 3/16 × 2 5/16 × 3 3/16 in.); Overall: 32.5 × 49.5 cm (12 13/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1966-107055
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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